12 7/Eleven Downtown 429 Wood Street Situated on a peninsula jutting into an intersection of rivers, Stanwix Street In 1925, this elegant building was designed for John M. Roberts the city of 305,000 is gemlike, surrounded by bluffs and bright Market Square Area Walking Tour & Company, a family-operated jewelry store. The local architect yellow bridges streaming into its heart. was George M. Rowland. The street-level storefront and delicately “Pittsburgh’s cool,” by Josh Noel, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 5, 2014 ornamented canopy have been refaced in accordance with the corporate image of the current tenant. PHLF is to undertake L ib e some façade restoration work in 2014, in cooperation with the URA. r FREE TOURS ty A Graeme Street ve n Old Allegheny County Jail Museum u 13 Denim Xpress # e 2 1 Open Mondays through October (11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) 439 Wood Street MEETING 3 Market Street LOCATION (except court holidays) Here is another example of the light terra cotta façades that distinguish the Fifth-Forbes corridor. The terra cotta 19 : Guided Walking Tours e

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o DOWNTOWN’S BEST o of c. 1925 with a limestone façade. The upper stories of this F F One PNC Plaza Special Places and Spaces in a 2-Hour Walk building would be well suited for apartments. 9 8 7 6 12–16 Not free. A Guidebook is included. Space is limited. Wood Street 15 Kashi Jewelers Advance paid reservations are required. 445 Wood Street 10 11 The Tower Piatt Place June and July: every Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. to Noon at PNC This rare surviving wood-frame façade, constructed after 1860, Other dates by appointment e e u u n and site 16 were restored by PHLF in 2013 through the e n e u v e n v A Mayor’s Downtown Preservation Program. e A v SPECIAL EVENTS s June Fridays at Noon A r e e b h

v Not free. Reservations are required. Space is limited. r N t i f l i o F F 16 Fifth Wood Building (Kashi Jewelers/Liberty Two) O June 2 (Mon.): Landmarks Scholarship Celebration Fifth Avenue and Wood Street A FREE one-hour guided walking tour, June 14 (Sat.): Isaac Lightner House Restoration Celebration This reserved corner building of 1922 was designed by George compliments of the Pittsburgh History July 19 (Sat.): Urban Gardens Bus Tour H. Schwan, a Pittsburgher. Look up to see the delicate Art The shaded area represents the Market Square City Historic & Landmarks Foundation Nouveau bud forms at the base of the columns above the first District, designated in 1972 and subsequently expanded. July 26 (Sat.): Millvale Church & Neighborhood Walking Tour floor. “Fasces,” a Roman emblem of authority, adorn the Numbers 4, 17, and 18 comprise Market Square Place. Sept. 20 (Sat.): Cul-de-sacs of Shadyside Walking Tour–– upper-floor panels. The building is lit at night. A Semi-Private World Meeting Location Oct. 11 (Sat.): Bus Tour of Modernist Landmarks on 17 PNC YMCA (Market Square Place) Market Square Area, Downtown Pittsburgh 236 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh’s North Side PNC Triangle Park, This restored Neo-Classical façade, designed in 1922 by Weary 1. Market at Fifth 11. 418, 420, 422 Wood Street Oct. 25 (Sat.): Bus Tour to Chatham University’s Self-Sustaining Fifth Avenue and Liberty Avenue 7 Eden Hall Campus & Alford of Chicago who specialized in banks, is distinguished 2. Camera Repair Service 12. /Eleven (Across from the Fairmont Pittsburgh) by its severe stone wall treatment. This kind of building would 3. Market Square 13. Denim Xpress have been designed in Italy and France around 1790. 4. Market Square Place 14. 443 Wood Street FOR DETAILS & RESERVATIONS 5. CVS/pharmacy 15. Kashi Jewelers 412-471-5808, ext. 527 or [email protected] 18 Market Square Place 214–18 Fifth Avenue 6. “Skinny Building” 16. Fifth Wood Building Funding from the Alfred M. Oppenheimer Memorial Fund of (Kashi Jewelers/Liberty Two) These rare cast-iron façades from the 1860s or 1870s (painted 7. Italian Sons and Daughters The Pittsburgh Foundation helps underwrite PHLF’s tour program. grey) and the corner red-brick building have been restored and of America 17. PNC YMCA (Market Square Place) reused as part of the LEED Gold Market Square Place. 4 17 8. Boutique la Passerelle 9. J. R. Weldin Company (Weldin’s) 18. Market Square Place 19 Buhl Building 10. Point Park University Center 19. Buhl Building 204 Fifth Avenue www.phlf.org Designed by Janssen & Abbott in 1913, this building is clad in Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation blue and creamy-white terra cotta and decorated in Renaissance For more information on local buildings and architects, Renewing Communities; Building Pride Pittsburgh. Mighty. Beautiful. Walkable. motifs. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. purchase one of our books: 412-471-5808, ext. 525; 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 The owners have agreed to donate a preservation easement to www.phlf.org Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 © 2014 PHLF to protect the façade in perpetuity. 1 Market at Fifth 3 Market Square 6 “Skinny Building” MARKET SQUARE AREA 130 Fifth Avenue Market Square, or the “Diamond,” was laid out in 1784. 241 Forbes Avenue WALKING TOUR Through the leadership and financial commitment of the Originally, this central square was the site of market stalls and This is perhaps the shallowest building in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF), and with the first Allegheny County Courthouse; later a market house built just after Forbes Avenue was widened around 1900. Invest in assets that drive innovation: downtowns, support from Duquesne Light Company, The Laurel Foundation, and City Hall occupied the square; and finally came the The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has purchased and PPG and its Pittsburgh Paints, three historic buildings the building and has asked PHLF to restore the façade. main streets, historic preservation. ...If you Diamond Market, occupying the whole square and bridging comprising Market at Fifth have been rescued, restored, and Market Street. Since 1961, Market Square has remained open, undermine the older places, you undermine the adapted to house seven apartments and two retail tenants: a place for concerts, rallies, and relaxation. The recent redesign 7 Italian Sons and Daughters of America very assets of the place. Heinz Healey’s Gentlemen’s Apparel and Nettleton Shoe Shop. is by Klavon Design Associates, Inc. 419 Wood Street ––Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution, 2003 Market at Fifth was one of the first revitalization projects in One wing of PPG Place actually fronts on Market Square. Designed in 1929 by local architects Hunting, Davis & to use Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits The uniform black and silver upright elements look like a Dunnells, this building became the home of the Italian Sons Redevelopment of the Market Square area is progressing. and achieve LEED Gold certification. Landmarks Design Prussian regiment formed up to impress the peasants. and Daughters of America, a fraternal organization, in Key projects are incorporating historic preservation and Associates was the project architect and evolve was the green- Primanti Brothers anchors a handsome block of vernacular 1960. It was restored in 2012–13 through Mayor Luke “green” building principles. Private local developers, the building consultant. Market at Fifth won the Best Market-Rate buildings constructed soon after Pittsburgh’s Great Fire of Ravenstahl’s Downtown Preservation Program. PHLF City of Pittsburgh, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Residential “Timmy” Award in 2009, among other awards. 1845. Also notice the Il Pizzaiolo building of 1905, with the managed the restoration, under contract and in partnership with the URA, thanks to funding from the Commonwealth Pittsburgh, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the The City owned these three buildings and allowed them elegant double windows recessed within an arcade across the of Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program to deteriorate. They were slated for demolition in 1999 under top floor, the ornamental birds on either side of the center preservation community have balanced new construction (RACP). In March 2012, the orange metal paneling that had with restoration, resulting in Pittsburgh’s first new Mayor Tom Murphy’s plan to clear more than 60 buildings in top-floor window, and the slender columns that look a bit like the area of Fifth and Forbes avenues. This plan was defeated long covered the upper stories was removed, to the sponta- skyscraper since the 1980s (and two more under palm trees. The wave-like design above the ground floor is in 2001 after vigorous opposition from PHLF, community neous applause of passers-by. construction), a luxury hotel, a major exercise and health called a Vitruvian scroll. stakeholders, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Original Oyster House anchors the northeast corner facility, condominiums, apartments, offices, parking, and The Arts & Crafts building facing Fifth Avenue, with its deep of Market Square. Constructed in 1870, the building is one 8 Boutique la Passerelle 417 Wood Street a mix of local and national retailers and businesses. Four overhanging roof, wooden window framing and stucco, is the of 562 sites in Allegheny County to be distinguished by a major projects completed in 2009 helped create the most architecturally significant of the group. It was designed for Historic Landmark plaque from PHLF. When the Oyster LDC acquired (and PHLF obtained a preservation easement on) this elegant commercial building of c. 1875, thanks to vibrant area we experience today: the Regal Shoe Company in 1908 by Alden & Harlow, the city’s House first opened, oysters sold for a penny and beer was leading architectural firm between 1896 and 1908. a generous donation from two members in 2011. • Three PNC Plaza: PNC Financial Services Group 10 cents a glass! The two, three-story brick buildings fronting on Market and developed a 23-story mixed-use tower on Fifth Avenue, Graeme streets were constructed c. 1870 in the Italianate style, 9 J. R. Weldin Company (Weldin’s) which achieved LEED (Leadership in Energy and 4 Market Square Place 413–15 Wood Street with overhanging eaves, ornamental brackets, and cast-iron including 219 Forbes Avenue Environmental Design) Gold certification. Three PNC window hoods. In 2011, LDC also acquired (and PHLF obtained a preservation The Art Deco building at 219 Forbes Avenue—notice the includes the 185-room Fairmont Pittsburgh, 28 condo- Landmarks Development Corporation (LDC), a for-profit easement on) the Weldin’s building (1883; refaced c. 1905). From geometric shapes and stylized ferns and flowers—was designed miniums, office space for PNC and the law firm Reed subsidiary of PHLF, acquired a fourth building—the former the large ground-floor display windows to the projecting cornice, by H. E. Crosby, corporate architect of the G. C. Murphy Smith, retail, a restaurant, and parking. Project architect: John R. Thompson Restaurant at 435 Market Street—in 2008. this Italianate building is a harmonious whole. Company, and was erected in 1930 at a cost of $250,000. Gensler (San Francisco), with Astorino (Pittsburgh). PHLF is renovating the Thompson building, thanks to a generous George C. Murphy founded Murphy’s in McKeesport, PA, grant from the Allegheny Foundation, the Commonwealth of 10 Point Park University Center • Piatt Place: Millcraft Investments of Washington, PA, in 1906. By the 1930s, there were 170 stores in 11 states. Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program 414 Wood Street transformed the Fifth Avenue and Wood Street building, Even during the Depression 40 new stores were built. (RACP), and Allegheny County’s Community Infrastructure This Wood Street façade, with two fluted (grooved) Greek designed in 1997 for the short-lived Lazarus department The former G. C. Murphy Company building and several and Tourism Fund. Built in 1907 for the John M. Roberts Ionic columns with scroll-like capitals, was designed in store (closed in 2004), into restaurant, retail, and office adjacent historic buildings fronting on McMasters Way and jewelry company, the brick building was acquired by the 1926 by Frederick J. Osterling, a prolific local architect, space—and added a three-story addition to house 62 Fifth Avenue (see 17 and 18 ) have been renovated by Millcraft Chicago restaurant chain in 1926 and later remodeled with for the Colonial Trust Company. The imposing building high-end condominiums. Investments. Market Square Place includes 46 loft apartments, a white-glazed terra cotta façade. In 1930, Thompson’s now houses the Point Park University Center, including a underground parking, first-floor retail throughout, and the • Market Square Place, also by Millcraft Investments, and Restaurant had nine Pittsburgh locations. An urban market library, television studio, classrooms, and the GRW Theater. YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh. Market Square Place is LEED • Market at Fifth, a project of the Pittsburgh History & will open in the first floor of the Thompson building this fall. The original skylit interior is framed in columns of Pavonazzo Landmarks Foundation, are featured in this brochure Gold; the project architect is Strada, a Pittsburgh firm. marble (black/grey-veined white marble) and the bank vault 4 1 has been turned into a reading lounge. (see and ): both projects involve the restoration of 2 Camera Repair Service architecturally significant historic structures for new uses. 433 Market Street 5 CVS/pharmacy 239 Forbes Avenue 418, 420, 422 Wood Street This narrow Art Deco building in buff brick has lots of 11 Most of the historic buildings along Forbes and Fifth This 126-foot-long façade of white terra cotta is distinguished Under contract and in partnership with the URA, PHLF geometric ornamentation: overlapping brick piers, rows of by seven gigantic Corinthian columns. Notice the “D” above avenues in the Market Square area were constructed restored these three cast-iron building façades in 2013, and cubes, horizontal strips of protruding-retracting brickwork, the second-floor windows, the Classical panels of fruits and between the late 1870s and the 1930s. They reflect a then acquired two of the buildings—420 and 422—to develop and a vertical chain of rectangles. Go inside! vegetables, and the elegant urns in the window pediments. variety of architectural styles and give a human scale to for retail and residential use. According to property deeds, The “D” stood for Donahoe: Donahoe’s Market and Cafeteria the heart of downtown Pittsburgh. The area is full of by 1902 Henry Clay Frick owned these commercial buildings was a favorite Pittsburgh destination from 1923 to 1970. details that delight the eye. Look up! of c. 1875–1881. (continued)